Director, Technology Development

Your Job

The Director, Technology Development will have the ability to evaluate the Datacenter/AI rack market and customers, recognize trends and set forth a plan to penetrate business opportunities/applications that will deploy an (AEC) Active electrical cable architecture. This individual will define the customer engagement strategy specific to the AEC engineering teams and work with the organization for execution. Responsibilities will also include the coordination of product support functions targeting customer qualification requirements (Application engineering, Firmware, interop testing, etc.).

Our Team

Molex possesses a rich heritage in the optical industry. We provide the highest performing and field-proven copper and optical communication solutions from components, passive and active modules to integrated line-cards. Our team is dedicated to continuous innovation in both copper optical component function integration, miniaturization, and manufacturing automation. We provide cutting edge technology with a comprehensive mechanical, electrical and software integration capabilities enable us to serve the needs of high-density, high-bandwidth, and flexible networks.

What You Will Do

• Engage customer engineering teams supporting both networking and compute hardware specific to host (switch) to module (NIC card) cabling applications.
• Identifies product and application trends/opportunities to drive next gen product roadmaps.
• Support application engineering during system bring up/debug (Host to module)
• Establish partnerships with the AEC eco system (DSP-retimer) suppliers.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor degree in Engineering or related technical discipline (Optics, RF signal integrity, SW)
• At least 7 years of optical / copper transceiver module development (High speed communication systems) and program/project management
• Experience in DSP/Retimers, FW (CMIS), HW, Design and test
• Experience developing customer relationships at the leadership level
• Experience communicating across all levels of business and executive leadership presence
• Business acumen to deliver high level communication in the specified field

For this role, we anticipate paying $200,000 - $225,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.